A woman is seriously injured after she was shot outside a U.S. Postal Service facility in Northeast D.C., and a postal worker was arrested, authorities say.
The woman was shot in an employee parking lot of the Joseph Curseen Jr. and Thomas Morris Jr. Processing and Distribution Center in the 900 block of Brentwood Road NE, D.C. police said.
The victim and a female postal worker argued in the parking lot at about 9:30 a.m. The postal worker pulled out a gun and opened fire, police said. The victim was shot twice.
A joint investigation revealed that the shooting was "domestic in nature," according to D.C. police.
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“It was a verbal altercation that then spilled over onto our postal service property here in D.C,” Postal Inspector Hunter Lenz said.
U.S. Postal Inspectors arrested 25-year-old Davida Johnson, of Southeast D.C., and charged her with assault with a dangerous weapon.
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The victim was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, D.C. police said in an update Monday. It wasn’t immediately clear if she also is a postal worker.
Johnson allegedly got into a car, and police issued a lookout to all districts to help find her. She returned a short while later to turn herself in, and she was arrested.
A number of officials with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded, and streets in the area were shut down. The facility was briefly closed but reopened to the public after the alleged shooter was arrested.
USPIS is leading the investigation.
Investigators said the postal worker who opened fire did not work in a role in which she would need to be armed; at the facility, only postal inspectors and postal police officers are armed, Lenz said. Police said they have been able to speak with multiple people who they say are involved, but only the woman who allegedly fired the shots was arrested.
People who said they are family members of the victim were on the scene after the shooting, but they declined to speak with News4.
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The postal facility, previously known as the Brentwood Mail Processing Facility, was renamed to honor employees who died after they were exposed to anthrax hidden in mail processed at the facility in the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001.
